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Researcher · Kyungpook National University · South Korea

Muthusamy Govarthanan

Muthusamy Govarthanan publishes mostly in Pollution, Materials Chemistry and Biomedical Engineering, on topics such as Nanoparticles: synthesis and applications, Microplastics and Plastic Pollution and Graphene and Nanomaterials Applications.

ORCID 0000-0001-8725-3059 OpenAlex
World rank
#14,514
of 7,710,434 ranked researchers
Rank in South Korea
#36
of 162,609
Works
248
Citations
17k
Citations per work
67.0
h-index
79
i10-index 194Top 0.5% in Pollution
Muthusamy Govarthanan

What does Muthusamy Govarthanan research?

Muthusamy Govarthanan's work is mostly in Environmental Science (18%), Materials Science (10%), Engineering (10%).

Everything else: 116 works · 46.8% of their workPhysical Sciences: 96 works · 38.6% of their workEnvironmental Science: 45 works · 18.2% of their workPollution: 30 works · 11.9% of their workHealth, Toxicology and Mutagenesis: 16 works · 6.3% of their workMaterials Science: 26 works · 10.3% of their workMaterials Chemistry: 26 works · 10.3% of their workEngineering: 25 works · 10.1% of their workBiomedical Engineering: 25 works · 10.1% of their workLife Sciences: 36 works · 14.6% of their workAgricultural and Biological Sciences: 20 works · 8.2% of their workPlant Science: 20 works · 8.2% of their workBiochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology: 16 works · 6.4% of their workMolecular Biology: 16 works · 6.4% of their workTHEIR WORKMuthusamyGovarthanan248works
Life Sciences15%Physical Sciences39%

Their six largest subfields, inside their fields and domains; the grey slice is everything else they publish. The interactive view splits every one of their works down to single topics.

The fields and subfields, with their numbers
  1. Everything else11646.8%
    1. Environmental Science4518.2%
    2. Materials Science2610.3%
    3. Engineering2510.1%
    1. Agricultural and Biological Sciences208.2%
    2. Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology166.4%
  1. 1Pollution12% of their works
  2. 2Materials Chemistry10% of their works
  3. 3Biomedical Engineering10% of their works
  4. 4Plant Science8% of their works
  5. 5Molecular Biology6% of their works
  6. 6Health, Toxicology and Mutagenesis6% of their works

Research topics

Which keywords describe Muthusamy Govarthanan's research?

The keywords of their largest research topics: Environmental Impact, Nanomaterials, Toxicity, Recycling, Waste Management, Antimicrobial, Nanoparticles and Marine Environment.

Size is their works in the topics tagged with each word, from their 8 largest topics. Each links to the topic it comes from most. The words come from the keyword list OpenAlex gives each topic, not from the text of the papers, so a word can appear that none of the papers uses.

All 21 words, with their numbers
  1. Environmental Impact963 topics
  2. Nanomaterials803 topics
  3. Toxicity632 topics
  4. Recycling532 topics
  5. Waste Management532 topics
  6. Antimicrobial441 topic
  7. Nanoparticles441 topic
  8. Marine Environment381 topic
  9. Microplastics381 topic
  10. Biomedical Applications191 topic
  11. Graphene191 topic
  12. Adsorption171 topic
  13. Contaminant Removal171 topic
  14. E-Waste151 topic
  15. Environmental Impacts151 topic
  16. Antibiotics141 topic
  17. Resistance Genes141 topic
  18. Biodiesel131 topic
  19. Enzymatic Hydrolysis131 topic
  20. Microalgae131 topic
  21. Pretreatment131 topic

Where does Muthusamy Govarthanan work?

Muthusamy Govarthanan's main affiliation in the publication record is Kyungpook National University, South Korea.

How many publications and citations does Muthusamy Govarthanan have?

OpenAlex counts 248 works and 16,608 citations for Muthusamy Govarthanan, an h-index of 79, ranking #14,514 of 7,710,434 researchers worldwide on the quality score.

Ranked on field-normalised citation excellence (50%), output (30%) and citations (20%). Counts come from OpenAlex author records, which occasionally merge different people who share a name or split one person into several.

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